NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9370

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD FireStream 9370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)

AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireStream 9370 +2738%

2.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FireStream 9370

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

225W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cypress

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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